Artwork
Endpaper with Feather Design
Endpaper with Feather Design is an ink print by the Romanticist artist German 19th Century. It dates from 1850 and is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.
About this work
Overview
Endpaper with Feather Design is a print on hand-washed green paper, likely created using the woodcut technique. The image features rows of simple black feather shapes.
Subject & Meaning
The print depicts feathers facing different directions, all with a uniform shape and some with internal lines suggesting texture. The simplicity and repetition of the design may indicate its use as a decorative endpaper.
Technique & Style
The print's characteristics, such as smudged black ink and uneven paper, suggest a handmade process. The use of woodcut, a traditional relief printing technique, would have involved carving a design into a wooden block.
Artist & collection
Artist
This artist left only tiny, perfect fragments—endpapers and saints, no bigger than a postcard.
